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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] And add to that the fact that the earliest "Libyans" were often depicted in similar shades as the Egyptians. So between the Old kingdom and 18th dynasty arose a population called "Meshwesh". One point to keep in mind though. Whenever some people discuss the ancient Libyans and Meshwesh, they often like to call them Berbers. This almost implies or suggests that Berbers originated with the arrival of lighter skinned populations in Northern Africa. Berber is a language that originated in East Africa to the South and West of Egypt. The meshwesh and other Northern coastal populations are people derived from various groups who arrived in Northern Africa in the distant past. They did not BRING the Berber language to Africa and therefore they were NOT the first Berbers. These populations often assimilated existing African traditions and languages, hence they did adopt the Berber language from populations already there and speaking the tongue. Therefore, the lighter skinned population is just one of the groups that have impacted the phenotype of Northern Africa, but they can not be claimed to be synonymous with the origin and development of Berber people, because the Berber language because the Berber language and North African culture in general predates these migrations. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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